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Work Order Efficiency

Tracking work order time is the first way to improve them. If you can learn how much time goes into each operation of a job you can use that to eek out small percentages of improvement. Or, in some cases completely alter your processes. Sometimes small “bugs” in operational processes are actually just tips of the iceberg. That’s why work order tracking has value.

Consider this little video an inspiration to try the Standard Time® tracking capabilities. You might find something worth correcting.  🙂

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What is a project in Standard Time?

Learn what you can do with projects in Standard Time®. Projects represent manufacturing work orders, jobs, sales orders, or any long term work.

Watch the video below for inspiration on how to align your processes to ST projects. You’ll see all the properties of projects. Some may align with your own operations, some may not. Let us know if we’re missing something you absolutely must have!

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Project Task Link Relationships

Do you need to delay the starting date of a task until another task has finished? That’s a link relationship! This video shows how to create that link relationship, and what they look like in a Gantt chart.

Watch for the words Predecessor and Successor. Those are important labels we give to tasks that precede and to tasks that succeed others. In other words, upstream and downstream tasks… before and after.

Predecessors and Successors are important for scheduling jobs and tasks.

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Automatic Job Scheduling, Part 2

Part 2 of the automated job scheduling series goes deeper into workstation and task configuration. Watch the video below and try it for yourself.

  1. Begin by setting workstation resource type to “Machine”
  2. Set a skill into each workstation (so the scheduler can find it)
  3. Set a skill into each project task (so the scheduler can use it to find workstations)
  4. Right-click on a project
  5. Choose “Move to next time slot by skill assignment“
  6. Done! Tasks are assigned to workstations with start and finish dates

 

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Automatic Job Scheduling, Part 1

Learn how to automatically assign tasks to workstations or machines for job scheduling. This video shows how “Skills” or machine purposes, or kinds of work are used to assign tasks to machines so that jobs are scheduled to run at the next available time slots.

Got a hot job that needs to run now? There’s a menu command for that.
How about a low-priority job? There’s a menu command for that.

Get inspiration to schedule jobs with the quick video below.

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Project Assistant For Mfg Work Orders

Here’s an easy way to create new work orders in Standard Time®. The “Project Assistant” in this video steps through all the pages of a new project.

And did you know, once you have created a project, you can create a copy from it? Creating a duplicate of an existing project is even simpler. Just right-click on any project and choose Duplicate! Now you have a new work order that is ready to scan!

Watch this video for inspiration.  🙂

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Prepping a New Manufacturing Job

Follow these steps to prep a new job for the shop floor. Once prepped, employees can scan the job name and tasks. A timer will start. They can scan again to stop that timer. Now you’ve got timestamped records of all employee working on jobs.

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Manage Production Jobs In Graphical Calendar

You may have hundreds of project and thousands of tasks for engineering and production. This video shows how to manage those tasks in a calendar. Specifically, a graphical calendar that displays tasks on dates and hours of the day. Drag and drop tasks to various dates to manage start and finish dates. Then view a bar chart of future manpower efforts in what we call the “Resource Allocation” chart.

This video uses the Standard Time cloud test site.

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Custom Fields In Reports

Manufacturing reports include everything from employee activity to detailed KPI’s. How do you customize these reports in Standard Time® for your purposes? With custom fields. These fields may contain the results of barcode scans, automated input, or manual entry. However the data arrives, they are included on reports using this method.

Watch the video and try it yourself!

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Assembly Line Work Order Tracking

How do your manufacturing managers know which orders are running on which assembly lines? Got software for that? Yeah? Then you’re good to go!

Software to track orders in manufacturing is called an MRP. What’s an MRP?

An MRP is a manufacturing resource planner. It is used to plan and schedule resources like assembly lines, equipment, materials, and even human resources. I.e. employees.

Standard Time® is an MRP. It tracks projects and orders on assembly lines. Or, if you don’t have assembly lines it tracks orders through your manufacturing facility. Find out where each order is, what status it is in right now, and how much work is left to go.

Watch the video and then give it a try.